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There were 50 Black students enrolled in Sparta Area School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 2,841 students were enrolled in the Sparta Area School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.8% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the district.

Sparta Area School District roughly covers 13 schools within Monroe County and has a main office in Sparta.

Among the 13 schools in Sparta Area School District, Sparta Meadowview Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 17 students.

According to the Nation's Report Card 2022 results, Black fourth-graders in Wisconsin scored an average of 40 points lower than their white colleagues in both Math and Reading.

Data also showed that Black students were three times as likely to fail the Reading test than white pupils in the state. The gap is even larger in Mathematics, with black students failing five times more than white students.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total Black Students	Black %
2022-23	2,841	50	1.8%
2021-22	2,905	49	1.7%
2020-21	2,908	38	1.3%
2019-20	2,959	38	1.3%
2018-19	2,981	45	1.5%
2017-18	2,974	54	1.8%
2016-17	2,902	57	2%
2015-16	2,887	50	1.7%
2014-15	2,817	46	1.6%
2013-14	2,738	40	1.5%
2012-13	2,687	38	1.4%
2011-12	2,643	47	1.8%
2010-11	2,604	54	2.1%
2009-10	2,586	54	2.1%
2008-09	2,608	55	2.1%
2007-08	2,660	62	2.3%